Easiest Cheapest and Ugliest mod ever!!

[Zach]

Yeah, barry is right. This mod is burning out my atomizers. One of them is particularly messed up. Gotta get a 3 aa setup. Currently snowed in, in michigan, all my batteries are dead and the 4aa setup is destroying my atomizers.

[youfillintheblank]

Really? I'm still on my original......3 weeks later. Strange. Although, I do not use it regularly. BUt when I do use it, it gets a workout.
If you can solder, you just need to add a jumper wire to the space occupied by a battery. Any wire should do, even a stripped wire bagtie, or paperclip if you can't get outta the house.

I feel your snowy pain. It's just under a foot deep around my house. stupid white .....!!

Yeah, barry is right. This mod is burning out my atomizers. One of them is particularly messed up. Gotta get a 3 aa setup. Currently snowed in, in michigan, all my batteries are dead and the 4aa setup is destroying my atomizers.

[Zach]

Hmm, maybe i was a bit hasty in my diagnosis. It seems there was a short in my connections and it was causing one small part of the atomizer to heat up extremely hot. After resoldering the battery connector to the wires, the atomizer i thought was toast actually works pretty good again.

I've determined that the 4xAA configuration is still running the atomizer too hot because it heats up way hotter than a battery does. It takes a while to cool down too, the smoke tastes too hot for a few minutes after i've smoked it.

and an edit for youfillintheblank: i just attached the battery pack to the end of the "broken" atomizer and put it in a shotglass of water. A bunch of juice came out and some grey/black chunks. The atomizer smokes pretty good now but i am still going to put in some kind of power regulator. Would be ideal if it was like a fully charged 901 battery all the time.

Actually, another edit, this time for barryk: hey barry, i don't know if you've taken apart a battery unit yourself or not, but what do you think of putting the pressure switch (the black cylinder the battery and connector are wired into) in the circuit and putting the whole thing inside a drilled battery casing? Do you think the extra power would overload the pressure switch?

[youfillintheblank]

Chunks are your enemy! Glad to hear it's workin alright. I got in touch with Madog about a power regulator and he gave me a link to Radio shack for the part. I'll send you the link if you like. I haven't gotten around to getting one yet. I don't think i'll be using this mod much as I just picked up my M401 from LitecigUSA. This thing is great! Every bit as good as DSE901

and an edit for youfillintheblank: i just attached the battery pack to the end of the "broken" atomizer and put it in a shotglass of water. A bunch of juice came out and some grey/black chunks. The atomizer smokes pretty good now but i am still going to put in some kind of power regulator. Would be ideal if it was like a fully charged 901 battery all the time.

[BarryK]

Actually, another edit, this time for barryk: hey barry, i don't know if you've taken apart a battery unit yourself or not, but what do you think of putting the pressure switch (the black cylinder the battery and connector are wired into) in the circuit and putting the whole thing inside a drilled battery casing? Do you think the extra power would overload the pressure switch?

Yepp, taken a few batteries apart, but I always manage to destroy the pressure switch....

Not quite sure what you mean by the above though - when you say "...in the circuit.." do you mean the circuit for the voltage/current regulator? - if that's correct then yes, bloody good idea..

The only snag I can see is that the regulator chip would need a resistor to set the maximum current, and as we are talking about 850 milliamps or so, that would need to be a 2 watt resistor which is quite chunky in itself.

[Zach]

3xAA is perfect.

[Bastage]

I run a USB mod with 3 rechargeable AA's. When I ran 4 it was noticeably too much voltage (5.3-5.4v), backed it down to 3 and works great.

[Zach]

Success!

I took a used battery casing to house the wires and give a cigarette-like effect. I put a microswitch in the end, it's a push type that will stay on only as long as you have it pressed. The wires come out the cherry end of the battery casing and i screw it into an atomizer. The wires go to a 3xaa battery box i rigged up from 3 1xaa holders (couldn't find a 3x holder at radio shack).

It's covered in heatshrink but it works kinda like the screw driver.

[youfillintheblank]

pictures please!!! Need something to try when I'm done playing with my christmas presents!

Success!

I took a used battery casing to house the wires and give a cigarette-like effect. I put a microswitch in the end, it's a push type that will stay on only as long as you have it pressed. The wires come out the cherry end of the battery casing and i screw it into an atomizer. The wires go to a 3xaa battery box i rigged up from 3 1xaa holders (couldn't find a 3x holder at radio shack).

It's covered in heatshrink but it works kinda like the screw driver.

[Zach]

Give me a day or two, i have to borrow a camera.